Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 páginas |
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... mere defini- tion , however explicitly expressed , can convey a satisfac- tory idea of all that any science is and aims at ; hence the necessity for a good deal of preliminary and circumlocu- tionary explanation . It is to this sort of ...
... mere defini- tion , however explicitly expressed , can convey a satisfac- tory idea of all that any science is and aims at ; hence the necessity for a good deal of preliminary and circumlocu- tionary explanation . It is to this sort of ...
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... mere physical and mechanical changes alone that the earth is subjected ; every new distribution of sea and land , every elevation of terrestrial surface or deepening of sea - bed , is necessarily accompanied by some change in climate ...
... mere physical and mechanical changes alone that the earth is subjected ; every new distribution of sea and land , every elevation of terrestrial surface or deepening of sea - bed , is necessarily accompanied by some change in climate ...
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... mere matter of guess - work and conjecture . It is important , then , for the young geologist to know that the field of his labours is restricted , or all but restricted , to the stratified fossiliferous rocks . In these , with their im ...
... mere matter of guess - work and conjecture . It is important , then , for the young geologist to know that the field of his labours is restricted , or all but restricted , to the stratified fossiliferous rocks . In these , with their im ...
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... Mere empiricism may sometimes succeed , but mil- lions have been squandered by this empiricism where a little elementary science would have forbidden the adven- ture . In like manner we have had ruinous searches for coal where geology ...
... Mere empiricism may sometimes succeed , but mil- lions have been squandered by this empiricism where a little elementary science would have forbidden the adven- ture . In like manner we have had ruinous searches for coal where geology ...
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... mere empiric such unfailing indica- tions have no significance . The successful sinking for coal through the New Red Sandstone of England is as much a triumph of scientific deduction as the obstinate boring for it at the base of the Old ...
... mere empiric such unfailing indica- tions have no significance . The successful sinking for coal through the New Red Sandstone of England is as much a triumph of scientific deduction as the obstinate boring for it at the base of the Old ...
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Página 135 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
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